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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

O is for Olivia Walton

Welcome to the A to Z Blogging Challenge where I will post on a word featuring a different letter of the alphabet each day of the month of April. My theme for this challenge is Female TV Characters.

Olivia Walton - "The Waltons"

THE STORY: It's the Great Depression and the Walton's are one big happy family living in Walton's Mountain, Virginia. Olivia Walton is married to John Walton and is the mother of seven: John Boy, Mary Ellen, Jason, Erin, Ben, Jim Bob and Elizabeth.

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL: Olivia is a kind, loving Christian woman. She makes sure that the children have warm clothes and that there's always a hot meal on the table. As every stay-at-home mom knows, taking care of kids is a full-time job. Multiply that by seven and it's a logistical nightmare, but Olivia's faith in God gives her strength. Goodnight, John Boy.

Do you have any personal stories of your family during the Great Depression?

10 comments:

both of my parents were affected seriously by the depression. Dads at home,moms working piecework (things like making flowers, beading purses, sewing collars on shirts).

My mother remembers the church ladies coming around at Christmas with a basket of goodies. Her father was too proud to accept it. She was heartbroken, deprived of the wonders inside of the basket. TOO PROUD to take Charity, she raged...

Mimi: That was a hard time for people. I can't imagine. My grandmother was born in 1919 so she was a young teenage during the Depression. They lived on a farm in Oklahoma. It was like the "Grapes of Wrath" with Oklahoma Dustbowl.

I was not a fan of the show - I was more into Buck Rogers and The Dukes of Hazzard - but my oldest brother was into it for a spell - I suspect he quite identified with ol' John Boy - artistic type - ready to spread his wings - yeah, I can totally see the draw.

Regardless - I did see enough to know that Michael Learned was great in this role - so another sterling choice!

Craig: Our family watched it (along with Gunsmoke, Bonanza, MASH, Happy Days, etc.) I really liked John Boy. He was a writer and that was my dream as well. He was also about my age...just a few years older.

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